January 14, 2008 - Sage Software Healthcare Inc. said today D’Souza and Associates, a billing and collection service for more than 50 ambulatory practices throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, selected Intergy by Sage for its customers’ physician practice management system.

The company had previously used another Sage Software product, The Medical Manager by Sage, since 1989.

January 14, 2008 – A new, hand-held creatinine monitoring system, Nova StatSensor Creatinine, was released last week by Nova Biomedical and enables simple, rapid, and accurate assessment of renal function by finger prick capillary blood sampling at the point of care.

Incorporating new Multi-Well test strip technology adapted from Nova’s hospital glucose monitoring system, Nova StatSensor Creatinine allows creatinine to be measured with a simple 30-second test in the emergency department, radiology, oncology, or other point-of-care areas where renal function must be assessed.

January 14, 2008 – The current global market for Optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems is currently around $200 million and growing at an annual rate of 34 percent and is expected to continue at this pace for the next several years, with revenues topping $800 million by 2012, according to Optical Coherence Tomography -- Technology, Markets and Applications: 2008-2012, a new market research

January 14, 2008 - MedPlus, the healthcare information technology subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics Inc. was awarded a contract to implement a clinical portal and information exchange for the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX), enabling physicians and other healthcare workers to securely collect, manage and share patient information in real time from Internet-enabled locations across the BHIX's eleven partner organizations.

January 14, 2008 - Constance D. Lehman, M.D., Ph.D., director of Radiology at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and professor of Radiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, will conduct “Breast MRI Analysis and Interpretation with CAD,” a live, one-hour CME online review of breast MRI cases on January 22, 2008 at 5:30 PM Pacific Time (8:30 PM Eastern Time).

Dr. Lehman is the author of some of the most significant studies of breast MRI published in the past two years.

January 11, 2008 - Hyland Software this week signed an agreement with the national healthcare alliance VHA Inc. for its OnBase document management software.

The agreement will provide discounted pricing to VHA’s 1,400 member hospitals and 21,000 nonacute healthcare organizations on document management solutions that aid in improving the quality of patient care while reducing cost and increasing efficiency at healthcare organizations.

January 11, 2008 - While reports of wrong-site surgeries in Pennsylvania decreased in 2007, some facilities continue to report wrong-site surgeries that may have been prevented had they followed protocols implemented by other facilities, according to analysis recently published by the Patient Safety Authority in its December 2007 Patient Safety Advisory.

January 11, 2008 - Washington Hospital Center took a major step forward this week in the federally funded Project ER One initiative as it unveiled innovative technologies and design solutions in its Emergency Department to improve patient care, and prepare the hospital for mass casualty events in the nation’s capital.

This marks the first time that many of these ER One concepts, which are designed to improve infection control and increase surge capacity have been used in an emergency care setting.

January 11, 2008 - Foundation Radiology Group (FRG) has licensed Emageon's RadSuite enterprise content and workflow manager and PACS imaging software, allowing radiologists to view images (via FRG's network) from any hospital, anywhere in the world, helping them return interpretation and diagnosis results to hospitals immediately.

January 11, 2008 - Imaging technologies are helping heart modellers overcome the dilemma of proving that the models really are an accurate representation of the real human heart, as demonstrated in a workshop held recently by the European Science Foundation (ESF).

Computerized in-silico models simulate the real heart and enable possible drugs and therapies to be tested without risk to people.
However, in order to create a realistic model, you need accurate and extensive data from real hearts for calibration.

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